Journey by Moonlight (Pushkin Press Classics)

An NYRB Classics Original The trouble begins in Venice, the first stop on Erzsi and Mih�ly's honeymoon tour of Italy. Here Erzsi discovers that her new husband prefers wandering back alleys on his own to her company. The trouble picks up in Ravenna, where a hostile man zooms up on a motorcycle as the couple are sitting at an outdoor caf�. It's J�nos, someone Mih�ly hasn't seen for years, and he wants Mih�ly to come with him in search of Ervin, their childhood friend. The trouble comes to a head when Mih�ly misses the train he and Erzsi are due to take to Rome. Off he goes across Italy, wandering from city to city, haunted and accosted by a strange array of figures from the troubled youth that he thought he had left behind: There are the charismatic siblings, �va and Tam�s, whose bizarre amateur theatricals linked sex and death forever in his mind; Ervin, a Jew turned Catholic monk who was his rival for �va's love; and again, that ruffian on the motorcycle. Antal Szerb